Thursday, July 20, 2006
I've had enough!!
We want mentors not Guru's ! Once again iI open my email today and found loads of offers for programs and software that I must have all reccomended by Internet marketing "guru's". Well sorry guy's most of you no longer deserve the term Guru. A guru is someone who is supposed to bring enlightenment and teaching not a sales man who emails you every few days to try an sell you something.
When did it all go wrong? Personally I think it went wrong at the end of 2005 when all the hype started about butterfly marketing and everyone with an email list hyped it up just to get their 50% commission and at $997 ticket price it was worth their time.
At this point the majority of "guru's" lost all credibility with me and in my eyes became morally corrupt. Since that point there seems to be a clique of marketers who just hype each others products irrespective of whether it is rubbish or not. Look at the recent offerings from Joel Comm. Adsense templates, If anyone knows that prebuilt sites just don't work for adsense it should be Joel therefore this was a cynical ploy to earn money from people he should be helping not relieving of money. And then he comes out with link sizzler and 500words.com $50 minimum from a site with a pagerank of 0. Come on guys get real? oh and before any comments about it all about the traffic..have you seen the alexa rankings for it?? Going down faster than a lead balloon.
I am going to use this blog to track who is promoting who's offer. Lets see if we can find all the members of this little cartel and maybe shame them into earning their titles of Guru..
Give us what we want guys knowledge...
When did it all go wrong? Personally I think it went wrong at the end of 2005 when all the hype started about butterfly marketing and everyone with an email list hyped it up just to get their 50% commission and at $997 ticket price it was worth their time.
At this point the majority of "guru's" lost all credibility with me and in my eyes became morally corrupt. Since that point there seems to be a clique of marketers who just hype each others products irrespective of whether it is rubbish or not. Look at the recent offerings from Joel Comm. Adsense templates, If anyone knows that prebuilt sites just don't work for adsense it should be Joel therefore this was a cynical ploy to earn money from people he should be helping not relieving of money. And then he comes out with link sizzler and 500words.com $50 minimum from a site with a pagerank of 0. Come on guys get real? oh and before any comments about it all about the traffic..have you seen the alexa rankings for it?? Going down faster than a lead balloon.
I am going to use this blog to track who is promoting who's offer. Lets see if we can find all the members of this little cartel and maybe shame them into earning their titles of Guru..
Give us what we want guys knowledge...
Examunra 11:18 PM